Parenting our Bee after infertility

Cosimo’s stars

Galileo named his 1610 discovery Cosimo’s stars, but we now know them as Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Fittingly, he found his stars through improvements in technology. And while Jupiter’s 4 Galilean moons are among the most massive objects in the solar system, we have benefited from another Italian discovery (improvements in ICSI with hyaluronic acid binding) to find our own 4 stars.

Like we expected I didn’t produce a lot of eggs. 10 follicles; 6 eggs of which 5 were mature. But the HA-ICSI treatment seems to have done the trick with fertilisation as at this point we have enough to get us a 5 day transfer on Wednesday. Obviously there’s a chance one or more may arrest before then, but I’m feeling more confident as another benefit of the HA treatment is stronger embies and improved implantation rates.